Senate Bill 1704: To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a State family support grant program to end the practice of parents giving legal custody of their seriously emotionally disturbed children to State agencies for the purpose of obtaining

September 9, 2004 Safe and Effective Approaches to Lowering State Prescription Drug Costs: Best Practices Among State Medicaid Drug Programs  As a result of increasing prescription drug costs, State Medicaid programs have implemented a variety of cost-containment mechanisms in their drug programs over the past few years. These mechanisms have allowed states to reduce their pharmacy expenditures and maintain beneficiary access to a vital part of their overall healthcare. This paper describes some of these cost-containment mechanisms and highlights several states that have achieved reduced costs with each technique. In general, states have not yet taken advantage of . . .